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“People think you make 10 million dollars, but then you pay your agent, pay taxes, buy the nice house, help the family out. Okay, now your left with your dick in your hand basically”-Lenny Dykstra

Are sporting event tickets just too expensive??

Vikings’ ticket sales avoid local TV blackout

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP)—Fans purchased more than 20,000 tickets to Minnesota’s playoff game over six days, assuring there will be no local TV blackout when the Vikings host Philadelphia at the Metrodome on Sunday.

The Vikings announced the sales results Saturday afternoon for their wild-card playoff game with the Eagles after moving the remaining 3,100 seats that were still unsold the day before. There were a limited number of tickets remaining for the game, including some returned by the Eagles.

The NFL gave the Vikings two extensions, the second until Saturday—24 hours before kickoff—after they sold about 5,000 seats from Thursday to Friday.

Only about 55 percent of the 55,000 season-ticket holders chose to buy playoff tickets, leaving the large supply. This extended the team’s sellout streak to a rather tenuous 115 games. The last blackout was for the Vikings’ last game of the 1997 regular season.

Vikings vice president for sales and marketing Steve LaCroix said there was no help from corporate sponsors or the local Fox affiliate, as there has been in the past for regular-season games with a few hundred tickets left to sell.

“It was all the fans. The fans get all the credit,” LaCroix said. “We needed that extra time, and the league was very accommodating.”

The Eagles ran an ad on their Web site this week, encouraging fans to travel to Minnesota and “paint the Metrodome green.”

LaCroix declined to offer an estimate of how many Eagles fans ultimately bought tickets, but said there weren’t any “bulk purchases” by businesses in the Philadelphia area. Eagles fans traditionally travel well, so there’s sure to be some vocal support for the visiting team on Sunday afternoon.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-vikings-tickets&prov=ap&type=lgns

Are ticket sales just too expensive given this recession? For a family of four to get to a game these days it has to cost well above 500 bucks after a few hot dogs and beers. Then again you have teams like the Vikings who have a stadium well above 100,000 seats and they can't sell out, supply and demand, now you have so many people that need to fill the stadium in order for the team to have the local broadcast. If no one buys that ticket everyone looses out and gets stuck watching no game.

I guess this was more of a rant than anything else. How about everybody buys a shirt so I can catch a few games next year.

Fifty dollar house??

So what does everyone think of this? It looks like a nice house, but then again a extra large cardboard box on a few square feet of land for fifty bucks would be nice too. I guess you do get one of the largest European beech trees in the state of Maryland!!
Well anyways you can take a look at the house here. The drawing will be Jan. 23.

Recession? Not on Inauguration weekend in DC

So I am reading through Yahoo! Finance and I see this article on the weekend packages the luxury hotels located in Washington DC are offering for the Obama Inauguration. The Manderin hotel is offering a four night package for......$200,500!!! Can you imagine paying that amount of money during a recession? I suppose it includes a private jet and a five course dinner but still that's a lot of cash to shell out for a long weekend.

Becky Quick or Trish Regan? Who is the smokeshow?

OK, for 2009 I am going to go out on a limb and say that Trish Regan (2nd picture) is definitely the dime piece of cnbc. Which is definitely a surprise considering she is from Hampton, New Hampshire, Home of Hampton Beach. AKA white trash capitol of the world. What do you all think? Is Trish this hot or am I wrong? Becky Quick is always getting the interviews with Warren Buffet, so maybe she would be Warrens pick.

Russian's are Crazy

MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) – Russia cut off the gas to its neighbor Ukraine on Thursday after a contract dispute but increased supplies to other European states to try to reassure customers worried about possible disruption.

The European Union, which receives a fifth of its gas from pipelines crossing Ukraine, and the United States urged further negotiations to resolve the dispute and said all supply commitments must be met.

Energy firms in Germany, France, Poland, Romania, Austria and Italy said they had not yet seen any drop in supply. Europe has enough gas stockpiled to manage without Russian gas for several days, though not weeks, analysts said.

I know this happened a few days ago but it hasn't been solved yet and I was watching Rocky IV yesterday so i just wanted to touch on the craziness of Russians. First, this happened before in 2006 which hurt the Ukraine and countries in Europe but people didn't think it necessary to develop a counter system then. So i guess it's partially everyones fault. Let's have Russia control a quarter of our gas supplies in Eastern Europe but let's not do anything about it. What's the worst that can happen? (Drago! Drago! Drago!)

Second, does Russia want people to hate them? I think it's a good thing because the U.S. needs some allies in hating on Russia. The list of countries is pretty weak though, the only thing we have going for us is Germany because they kinda schooled the other guys on the list during WWII, I mean France?, come on.

Anyways, my investment tip is too buy stock in the company that owns snuggies because orders to Eastern Europe are going to go thru the roof.


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"When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life. Now that I am old, I know it is." Oscar Wilde